There is tension between having a single source of truth for source code, including an opinionated formatter; and allowing individual programmers expressive facility to format and structure code in a way that makes most sense to them.

I've been thinking lately of a formatter that would resolve this tension. It would be a local, individual formatter, complementary to the global, opinionated, "Prettier" formatter.

When the source code was committed to remote for review, the opinionated formatter would do its thing, making sure the code was formatted properly according to whatever the team agreed. But locally, the code would remain however the developer liked it.